Tallink Latvija AS, part of Tallink Grupp, has notified the Latvian Employment Agency and the group's Latvian crew members and shore personnel that it is commencing a collective redundancy process involving around 550 Latvian employees.
A number of shipping lines from across the region has put in place restrictions, first and foremost regarding passenger traffic, however, some services have been suspended altogether to limit the spread of the virus.
The Estonian state-owned rail company has partnered with the Latvian engineering company DiGas to convert one of Operail's locomotives to dual-fuel operations.
The Estonian ferry line has announced its special cruise itinerary for the upcoming year, extending the offer with voyages to St. Petersburg and a direct sailing between Riga and Visby.
The Swedish tech-company Nowhere Networks works together with a number of shipping lines to provide passengers with high speed and low latency connection during their voyage.
The shipping line, part of CMA CGM, has received from the Chinese Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard Containerships Polar, its second in a series of four 1,380 TEUs-big (incl. 360 reefer plugs) gas-run vessels.
RB Rail, the organisation overseeing the project, has selected IDOM to provide design and supervision services for the 71 km- Pärnu-Rapla and the 78 km-long Kaunas-Ramygala sections.
Leading a 15-strong delegation to Hamburg and Lübeck, Kaspars Ozoliņš, Under-Secretary of State in the Latvian Ministry of Transport, and Ingo Egloff, Joint CEO of the Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM), signed a co-op agreement.
Year 2018 is drawing to its conclusion. The past months, alike life itself, were full of ups and downs. It was a real Dickens of a job putting all the issues of the Baltic Transport Journal and the Harbours Review together - dozens of articles and hundreds of news items and Market SMSes, not to mention all the add-ons, such as our maps or the Baltic Yearbook.
